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  Grumpy Old Bookman: A couple of yesterday's papers (e.g. the Financial Times) carried small reports, based on an Audible.co.uk press release, to the effect that: The world's first audio-only novel will be launched this week in a sign that the surge in demand for downloadable books is set to provide a new medium for budding (via Cosmos)

Miscellanea: Anyhow, in other news: Bayer has knowingly sold medicine with HIV floating in it, CSSFill is offering free CSS templates for the lazy people among us, the Photography Channel is cool, fundamentalist Christians are making a computer game where you have to kill everyone who’s not a retarded, inbreeding, low-life, hateful, warmongering, scum-sucking son of a bitch like all the other fundamentalist Christians, first ever audio-only novel — um… (via Cosmos)

A Day In Paradise: FT.com / World / UK - First audio-only novel tells new story for authors (via Cosmos)

http://www.whyisthisnews.com: The release comes as book publishers are seeing rapid growth in demand for downloaded audiobooks, a market that barely existed three years ago. The rampant growth of podcasts - audio broadcasts that can be downloaded to iPods, MP3 players and smartphones - is leading publishers to release downloadable audio books ahead of CD and tape versions, as the publisher Random House did with its bestseller The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. (via Cosmos)

  Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things: From the site: "EarthCore is the world's first podcast-only novel: you can't find it in stores, you can't download the full audio, and the only way to find out what happens is to subscribe to the podcast. This novel is a cross between episodic modern-action fare like "24" and classic sci-fi movies like Predator and Starship Troopers."

[Podcastbuzz.com] Podcast Buzz !!!: Podcasting News – Over the past several months we went through and completely re-designed the techpodcasts.com website, during that time the membership application section was closed, I re-opened it yesterday with the new submission system which automates much of the

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